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Fast Forward Man Charged With Hate Crime After Orthodox Jew Beaten In Brooklyn
A man was been charged on Sunday with a hate crime in connection to the beating of an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn, NBC New York reported. Police said they found Farrukh Afzal of Staten Island beating 62-year-old Lipa Schwartz in the Boro Park neighborhood. Afzal was arrested and charged with assault as a hate…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic And Racist KKK Fliers Dropped In New Jersey Community
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and racist fliers supporting the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in the New Jersey community of Cherry Hill. The fliers were placed in Ziplock bags and weighed down with rice. Some featured a picture of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Others used the image of a black man on trial before a Jewish…
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Fast Forward Chelsea Soccer Club To Take Anti-Semitic Chanters On Tour Auschwitz
(JTA) — Chelsea, the British soccer club, is planning to send fans who are caught chanting anti-Semitic songs on a tour of the former death camp of Auschwitz instead of punishing them. The team’s owner, Roman Abramovich, who is Jewish, has spearheaded a new initiative to combat anti-Semitism, according to the report about he plan…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Blaming Jews For Kavanaugh Allegations Found In Iowa
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic flyers that blame Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were hung on the doors of Iowa organizations. The hate flyers discovered on Monday are the same ones posted on at least four college campuses across the country. The flyers were posted on the doors…
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Fast Forward California Man Charged With Setting Fire, Drawing Devil Outside Synagogue
A California man faces charges of vandalism and arson after setting a small fire outside a local congregation and drawing a devil on its walkway, the Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday. Police were alerted of a person, later identified as Brett Allen Bisnett, loitering around Congregation Beth Shalom in Modesto on Monday evening. Bisnett, who told…
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Fast Forward Flyers At Three Universities Blame Jews For Kavanaugh Assault Allegations
(JTA) — A flyer blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Justice Brett Kavanaugh were posted on the University of California, Davis campus. The flyers discovered on Monday read: “Every time some Anti-White, Anti-American, Anti-freedom event takes place, you look at it, and it’s Jews behind it.” The flyer shows an image…
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Fast Forward Virginia JCC Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti For Second Time In 18 Months
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia was vandalized with 19 spray-painted swastikas early Saturday morning. JCC employees discovered the vandalism when they were opening up the building that day. Security footage captured a suspect spray-painting the swastikas at around 4:30 a.m. Police are working to identify the culprit. The JCC was also hit with…
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Life Meet The Superhero Who Power Washes Swastika Graffiti In His Spare Time
A power washer — the latest in sophisticated anti-hate technology? Corey Fleischer is the founder of “Erasing Hate,” a movement dedicated to removing graffitied hate speech from public spaces. He’s been servicing his Montreal community and many others for over eight years. And it all started when the power wash specialist was on his way…
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